Bridge Claimed Another One

The only risk of failure is promotion. - Scott Adams

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Life's a game but Bridge is serious. - Unknown

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

Don't risk more than you can afford to lose. - Joe Segal

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. - Rodney Dangerfield

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. - Mark Twain

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S Patton

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. - Ernest Hemingway

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick Wilcox

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. - Sarah J. Hale

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

When you're my age, you just never risk being ill - because then everyone says, "Oh, he's done for." - John Gielgud

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. - Brian Halligan

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. - Neil Simon